Juliancolton

Honestly, if I fly it half a dozen times a year, it's a lot. There are so few places where you are both permitted to fly and can feel comfortable flying. Even at home I live within 5 miles of a small airport, so I'm supposed to* call them and secure clearance every time I want to fly. There are different regulations for each classification of state land, so if you're within the blue line in the Catskills for instance, you have to* know whether you're on a forest preserve (can't fly), wilderness area (can't fly), wild forest (can fly with a permit), state forest (can fly), unique area (can fly sometimes), multiple use area (can usually fly without a permit but not always), travel corridor (state says sometimes but FAA says you can't fly over traffic), scenic area (no freaking clue)... and these all tend to be gerrymandered, recursive, and undemarcated. The good news is, the DEC usually has better things to do and your Barney Fife types generally don't know their intensive use areas from their state historic sites.

We probably peaked yesterday in my neighborhood as the balance is shifting toward more bare trees interspersed than green ones. The colors are nice - the best in several years, to be sure - although much potential was lost to the repeated wind and rain events. I sent my drone up late this afternoon to get a quick pano facing southwest. Not the best light, not the best quality, but it sure is purdy nonetheless.

32 here. The temp pretty much stopped falling after midnight or 1 am, likely due to high clouds streaming in. Despite those clouds, already pushing 60.

Still a slight breeze keeping the temp freefall from reaching terminal velocity. The high is sliding a bit too far south to optimize radiational cooling it appears. 36/34

I'll have to look into that for mine. It's been pretty good for the first couple years but I'm sure calibration errors grow over time.

.73" in the Stratus and .88" in the Ambient. Tipper a little tipsy?

I paddled out to get a quick phone picture yesterday before the leaf massacre started. Interestingly, the polarizing nature of the water surface makes the reflection colors more true-to-life than the real image. Need to do something about that dead ash tree before it takes out the service pole.

We're not far off from a slushy coating above like 3,000ft tomorrow night. Anyone living on the summit of Black Dome should prepare accordingly.

My sugar maples are on fire as well and taking on a much deeper shade of orange than most years. I planted two of them about 15 years ago... should have done a bunch more. They're great trees throughout the year.

You aren't fooling anyone

Absolutely bloody not. Snow before Nov 15th is the work of Satan himself.

There's always the hope(?) for something like what Islip experienced in 2014, 13.5" in 24 hours. That said, after seeing the flood damage caused by that same amount over the course of a whole week in October 2005, I think I'd rather replenish the wells in manageable increments. Not sure how my rubber band and bubblegum dam would fare against a tropical torrent.

I was always a rebel.

The wild card is Tuesday morning, when some models are increasingly suggestive of enhanced forcing from the advancing shortwave. If there's enough tropical moisture hanging around by then, we could still verify that Upton map and perhaps even do a bit better in northern areas.

I'd just sneak over the line early one morning and snip the biggest vines with a pair of loppers. Quick five-minute job. It's not a compete fix but at least the canopy will stop expanding and start dying back.

The models have trended south pretty markedly with the remnants of Delta on Monday. All-day downpours to basically a fringe job. War flashbacks

Agreed. Color seems to move inward from the outer limbs, and it can be nice at times but the goldilocks zone is never particularly deep... just sort of thin layers that get peeled off when the breeze kicks up.

Started a commissioned shoot at the old Catskill Game Farm today. That place is a bit like Chernobyl with everything left exactly as it was the day the place was abandoned. Animal feed, disposable cameras, half-full hand sanitizer dispensers (dibs if the virus flares up again) just resting in place since 2006. Anyway, foliage was getting pretty good around the foothills in that area. Just in time for the squall line this afternoon...

Yeah, it's back to awful again. I was meandering around the Bulls Bridge area in CT this morning and can only recall one tree that I would characterize as vibrant, rest either tortured green or mustard/beige/taupe/russet.

Yup, we're on the same page. Hopefully increased mindfulness to hygiene and distancing during virus season will keep flu deaths down as well.

I think it's here to stay, another strain making the rounds annually during the overarching "cold and flu" season. We have a flu vaccine and while it helps, we're obviously not particularly close to eradicating influenza from the natural reservoir.

Agree, thankfully there are still some small farms off the beaten path that didn't make the bourgeois repositioning into wine and live entertainment. Another soaking rainfall here this morning. My cover crops and newly reseeded grass are loving it.

LOL, it's gonna be an absolute circus this weekend. Beleaguered motorists abandoning their Subarus at exit 39 and just crawling the rest of the way to Weed Orchards. WOTHSP plunging into the river from the mechanical resonance of 100,000 Brooklynites marching in lockstep. OKX radar picking up echoes from graffiti overspray in vicinity of Breakneck.

I just took a sunset cruise up the Taconic, and boy... yesterday's weather legitimately undid a week of foliage progression. Just about everything with a hint of color is now on the ground, so the hills almost look late-summer green again.

A hair over 3" here. Pond overflowing, well is nice and full.